Argentina has done the same. Videla and Massera of the junta will spend the rest of their miserable lives in a real prison: [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7664876.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/... Galtieri (infamous military leader in the Malvinas/Falklands war) has already died. I know people in Uruguay are trying to achieve the same. The constant protests outside the homes of human-rights violators are called "escrache" in Argentina and "funa" in Chile.

The sentences are very short, but they do represent a real beginning of psychic freeing among the pro-democracy wing of the Chilean population.

Remember, it wasn't that long ago that the army there was continually threatening another coup(which the anti-democratic wing of society would all have supported) if any punishment at all was given to the fascists of '73.

The generals should be left to rot(or perhaps gutted and then thrown out of planes into the ocean like their victims)but this is a start.